In Win8 review, with all 8 systems "that users aiming for Win 8 are likely to buy" there wasn't a single with AMD CPU.When kindly asked "WTF dudes?" answer was "well, if you donate for it, I might be so kind to review it, if you behave".

The guy doing the tests didn't have an AMD system at hand, and clearly said so in response to the comments. What could possibly be wrong about this? And what kind of miracles do you expect from this preview version? Rest assured that if there were any, AMD would already have told us about it. Case closed.Reply

Wait... so you mean there was an easier way to do it rather than for me to buy a 4G Ipad for 500 and WiFi Ipad for 800? I generally keep the 4G Ipad turned off and use it as a hotspot so I can get better battery life on my WiFi Ipad.

Verizon doesn't have a cap and they don't throttle. If you use more you move to a higher bucket of GB. They will even back date you so you don't pay a per GB overage. Might as well get used to it. Wireless network capacity is a scarce commodity. You don't complain that electricty, water, or natural gas are generally metered (even though there are still plenty of people that have unlimited for those too).Reply

Yeah, I'd love to see the amount of time it takes to charge using the AC adapter, Mac USB port, and PC USB port from 0-100%. I suspect that standard spec 500mA are so pitifully slow at charging that they aren't useful anymore. I never bothered using the AC adapter with my previous iPads but I might have to this time. Reply

Agreed. Sounds like this is one of the big negatives of the new display and the corresponding 70% increase in battery size. Also, is there any way to speed up the battery charging process? Like using an Innergie 3A/15W wall charger instead of the supplied Apple 2A/10W charger? Or does that not do anything?Reply

You do not reserve the right to correct a controlled test like this with your subjective experience with whatever settings you have enabled/disabled on your personal iPad.

I know you're probably smug as hell now that you have that shiny new iThing in your sweaty little mitts, but try not to be a self-righteous jerk because you think 'everyone else is doing it wrong.' Obviously.Reply

I don't understand these results. Mobile phone battery tests show tremendous drop offs when switching from wifi to LTE yet here have less than one hour. How is that possible? I expected the wifi number to greatly exceed 10 hours. With that humongous battery the wifi number is extremely disappointing. Reply

You must take into account the relation this has with the enhanced battery in general. The retina display uses a lot more juice, as well as the new internal hardware components. Only an hour off this battery time would likely equate to quite a bit more for the smaller, old ipad's batteries. (and even more for smaller mobile batteries)Reply

So if the LTE modem consumes an additional 0.5W (that's insane, but makes calculation easier), it maybe halfs battery life on the iPhone, but has only minor influence on the iPad 2 and almost no influence on the iPad 3.Reply

Used ot own a PC tablet - Fujitsu lifebook and go over it pretty quick about 5 years ago.

The drawcard for me was being able to write notes on it in meetings. What I later realised was that typing was quicker than writing (and you dont have to go back and convert/correct all your hand written notes). So basically a normal laptop would have done me just fine.

When I used it as a pure tablet, all I did was surf the net and check email. Maybe now I'd add watch videos online etc. I had it for about 12mths and sold it.

Not sure why its taken so long for tablets to get off the ground. The formfactor was available back in 2000 or so on Windows 2000 embeded etc, my housemate had one, cost about the same as iPad under $1000.

"All those extra iPad 3 pixels are really not gonig to make much difference on such a small screen I say."

I strongly disagree. I've never liked the way text looks on computer displays, and it impacts my reading enjoyment. Quadrupling the pixel count should drastically improve the appearance of text.

The purpose of the resolution increase is not to increase the amount of "stuff" you can fit on screen, it's to increase the level of detail that can be displayed. At any screen size that will make a difference. Whether or not the increased display detail is something you find desirable is a different (and completely subjective) question.Reply

I do not see how you can claim the Prime has a better graphics chip. From what I have seen, the Tegra 3's graphics chip is weaker than the 'New' Ipad's. As far as CPU power is concerned, however, the Transformer Prime has a substantial lead. App performance is a different question altogether. Plus, iPad sheeple... seriously. I thought such unsubstantiated name calling went out of popularity a while ago. For the record, I do not own either tablet. I own a HP Touchpad, but would prefer either the Prime or the iPad over it. Reply

Text can't look inferior on a 2560x1440 monitor for the simple reason that there are more pixels than on an iPad.Take any given content, say a web page, and strech it to full screen. The text will be rendered with more pixels on your IPS monitors, and therefore will be clearer by any measure.

That is so exactly, 180 degrees wrong. 2560x1440 pixels displayed on a 50 foot screen six foot in front of you will have a very visible grain; displayed on a 10 foot screen, less so. Alternatively, 640x480 pixels on a three inch display will have much less grain than 640x48- pixels on a fourteen inch display. When it comes to the clarity of text, with crisp edges and no visible aliasing, it's all about the number of pixels per inch and distance from the eye. I'm typing this on a 27" monitor and the text quality is noticeably worse than on my iPad 3 or my iPhone 4, because the pixels are biggerReply

Also, the Transformer Prime is inferior to the iPad 2 from last year, especially in graphics performance. The Tegra 3 is a dog and NVIDIA has serious catch-up to do with the Tegra 4. How do you expect it to be better than the iPad that was released last week?

It is funny though seeing someone so ignorant and misinformed talking about "sheeple"Reply

Are you serious? Have you seen one in person? That display is gorgeous! I'm sorry, you gotta see it to believe it. You can see a clear difference. It's not even close. As soon as I saw the iPad3 you knew right away that there's something different about the display. It looks life-like and the photos are of print-quality.

I don't know about the Transformer Prime because I haven't seen one myself, but at least check out the thing first before you make a judgement.

"Looks like a better deal" doesn't make it so. There's no way the battery life is better than iPad. That thing's got the biggest battery pack in the industry. If a competitor have a similar display, how can they possibly compete unless it weighs the same as well?

Graphics chip? The A5X is the fastest in the industry. No one even comes close.

I don't know what you smoking, but your list of "Apple pitfalls" is pretty pathetic. At least name the things that are true.Reply

Can you confirm whether there was continuous data transfer during the 20+ hours Verizon LTE hotspot test? If so, that is incredible battery life! Makes me wonder how long next year's iPad could last with the more power efficient 28nm chipset...Reply

Obviously there's always a trade-off in functionality vs performance vs battery life. Realistically, if I'm using an iPad during the day, maybe for work, the 3rd gen has even less of a chance of making it thru the day, which diminishes it's mobility.Reply

But it's only a7% drop, I wouldn't call that "huge"... I'm assuming the iPad 2 number is for wifi and a 3G model isn't listed. Still the difference wouldnt be that great since apple listed the iPad 2 at about 9 hours for 3G.Reply